Written by James M. Tate / 4/27/2025 / No comments / action , adventure , bill mckinney , brian dennehy , chris mulkey , david caruso , eighties , franchise , jack starrett , michael talbott , richard crenna , sylvester stallone , vietnam
TED KOTCHEFF DIRECTS SYLVESTER STALLONE IN 'FIRST BLOOD'
No comment / Posted by James M. Tate / 4/27/2025
Title: FIRST BLOOD Year: 1982 Rating: ****1/2When rural sheriff Brian Dennehy drives ragged drifter Sylvester Stallone from one side of a one-mile town to the next, he mentions several times how that long hair wouldn't fit into such a peace
Written by James M. Tate / 4/16/2025 / No comments / action , adventure , constance forslund , eighties , fred ward , gene hackman , harold sylvester , patrick swayze , reb brown , robert stack , ted kotcheff , tim thomerson , vietnam , war , wings hauser
GENE HACKMAN COMMANDS TED KOTCHEFF'S 'UNCOMMON VALOR'
No comment / Posted by James M. Tate / 4/16/2025
Randall Tex Cobb & Kelly Junkerman in UNCOMMON VALOR Year: 1983 Rating: ****Recently, three important people connected to 1983's UNCOMMON VALOR have died: the most significant being the legendary Gene Hackman, who stars as Colonel Jason Rho
Written by James M. Tate / 4/14/2025 / No comments / action , ann dvorak , boris karloff , exploitation , george raft , howard hawks , karen morley , mobster , osgood perkins , paul muni , thirties , vince barnett
PAUL MUNI IN HOWARD HAWKS ORIGINAL MOB-EXPOSE 'SCARFACE'
No comment / Posted by James M. Tate / 4/14/2025
Title: SCARFACE Year: 1932 Rating: ***Howard Hawks' SCARFACE is like a Cliff's Notes for a book that's yet to be written... and that's not only relating to the many-decades-later remake starring Al Pacino, but something like, say, THE ROARI
Written by James M. Tate / 4/10/2025 / No comments / ariel winter , buddy , comedy , crime , dark comedy , genre tarantino , gumshoe , michelle monaghan , neo noir , robert downey jr. , shane black , shannyn sossamon , stephanie pearson , val kilmer , zeroes
ROBERT DOWNEY JR WITH VAL KILMER IN 'KISS KISS BANG BANG'
No comment / Posted by James M. Tate / 4/10/2025
Michelle Monaghan in KISS KISS BANG BANG Year: 2005 Rating: ****Famous for writing the original LETHAL WEAPON, thus receiving story credit for the entire hit-and-miss franchise, Shane Black energetically attempts to trade mainstream action
Written by James M. Tate / 4/08/2025 / No comments / action , adventure , eighties , fantasy , gavan o'herlihy , george lucas , jean marsh , joanne whalley , pat roach , rick overton , ron howard , val kilmer
VAL KILMER, JOANNE WHALLEY AND WARWICK DAVIS IN 'WILLOW'
No comment / Posted by James M. Tate / 4/08/2025
Title: WILLOW Year: 1988 Rating: ***There's a point in the George Lucas production WILLOW directed by Ron Howard, a cross between STAR WARS and THE LORD OF THE RINGS, when Val Kilmer's ragged heart-of-gold scoundrel Madmartigan is battling
Written by James M. Tate / 4/07/2025 / No comments / biopic , counter-culture , crispin glover , frank whaley , kathleen quinlan , kevin dillon , kyle maclachlan , meg ryan , michael madsen , music , nineties , oliver stone , olivia barash , sam whipple , val kilmer
VAL KILMER PLAYS JIM MORRISON IN OLIVER STONE'S 'THE DOORS'
No comment / Posted by James M. Tate / 4/07/2025
CineGraphx image of Val Kilmer in Oliver Stone's THE DOORS Year: 1991 Rating: ***At one point in Oliver Stone's THE DOORS, Jim Morrison is told by one of several female admirers that he's better than the band itself, and that everyone only
Written by James M. Tate / 4/02/2025 / No comments / cold war , college , comedy , deborah foreman , ed lauter , eighties , gabe jarret , robert prescot , science-fiction , val kilmer , william atherton
VAL KILMER, GABRIEL JARRET & WILLIAM ATHERTON IN 'REAL GENIUS'
No comment / Posted by James M. Tate / 4/02/2025
Val Kilmer in REAL GENIUS Year: 1985 Rating: ****In two consecutive years, William Atherton played a smug antagonist against underdog scientific protagonists... in GHOSTBUSTERS he wanted to shut down the titular agency and in REAL GENIUS he
Written by James M. Tate / 4/01/2025 / No comments / eighties , joanne whalley , jon gries , joseph carberry , michael greene , michael madsen , neo noir , romance , val kilmer
VAL KILMER, JOANNE WHALLEY & MICHAEL MADSEN 'KILL ME AGAIN'
No comment / Posted by James M. Tate / 4/01/2025
Val Kilmer in KILL ME AGAIN Year: 1989 Rating: **1/2A perpetually sexy/sultry stare with pursed full lips in a steamy Reno-set 1980's Neo Noir fits both femme fatale Joanne Whalley and her then-husband Val Kilmer... as a crookedly gorgeous
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